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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  what really mattered. Once I knew, the question no longer presented a ... ? Surely, but I have no regrets, as the experience was essential in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  he holds no connection to MIT itself. He has never been a student; he ... has come to adopt him, despite no direct link. "I was here juggling last

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  : As you can see, there’s no cascade of steps to follow. It’s a lot of ... ? Yes. No. Maybe.  In the end I decided to spend my summer in Houston

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the MIT website: I'm an AFFILIATE now. No longer a student! Maybe that ... ...London. Interviewer: Yes yes, but where in London? Me [thinking: there's no way you

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  heavy winds of Saturday showed no signs of dying down, and Corn Dog was a ... the wind, turned around, and completed two and a half laps with no

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  dozens of fields, open exclusively to MIT students. Although there is no ... "just do it", but there was no fear about going down a wrong path. Trying

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  noticed several inaccuracies: (1) I'm no longer 18 (I'm actually 56 now ... . None of the above are universal rules. Pass/No Record is a time to find

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  is my compilation of his response, in no particular order: 1. Always ... , how far can you go? At the end of the day, no one gets out alive.” New

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Right NOW Making Things

  

  likely, you won't even make one, because you'll realize you have no fresh ... -hour access to the studio but no one telling you what to make or when

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  prepare: CPW will overwhelm you. There is no other way to put it. There ... will be some mysterious fun game (I have no idea what it is) once you get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  wanting to try but not really trying, I can ride my bike with no hands. I ... , old enough that I no longer have to fax papers home for parent

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  . If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no ... . "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  stop for the second bus we needed to catch. No matter how many people we asked about the bus stop, no one knew where we could find this last bus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... MIT is right for them.  That's hard for me to say, because there's no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  pieces of sound. I actually had no previous experience with listening to ... , Rebecca, and Sabina. Just so you know, they recorded all sound in no more

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  purveyors of engineering spectacle–are no exception. This year, there were a ... and surety in his movements! His questionable fashion sense! No doubt

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  plan every element of your four years out. But really, there's no rush to ... , just how we play the hand." -Randy Pausch So no matter where life ends up

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no ... great expedition into existence as a two-decade-old. (And no spelling

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  , or get nonexistent triple majors, or...for fun. (There's no credit ... two weeks. Three of them span half a day. No comment. In case it wasn

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  left evidence of our journey, though no trace of watermelon could be ... disappearing. No worries--we're not starving anymore. (Nor were we ever) The

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012